Dean was in support of invading Iraq

On January 31, Dean told Ron Brownstein of the Los Angeles Times that "if Bush presents what he considered to be persuasive evidence that Iraq still had weapons of mass destruction, he would support military action, even without U.N. authorization

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And then on Feb. 20, Dean told Salon.com that "if the U.N. in the end chooses not to enforce its own resolutions, then the U.S. should give Saddam 30 to 60 days to disarm, and if he doesn't, unilateral action is a regrettable, but unavoidable, choice.

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He likewise tried to claim Bush lied on Saddam, even when Russert quoted Dean from January: "I would be surprised if he didn’t have chemicals and biological weapons.”

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Former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean, another Democratic contender, followed Mr. Kerry's lead yesterday with a similar accusation on NBC's "Meet the Press in June."
"We were misled," Mr. Dean said. "The question is, did the president do that on purpose or was he misled by his own intelligence people?"


Imagine if Dean had to vote in Congress on giving the President the option to invade Iraq.

Dean should not be projected as an antiwar candidate; his statements do not support an antiwar position.

Just trying to stur up folks?

Buck stops here.

Dean SUPPORTED the Iraq war only if time was given -- 60 to 90 days for the inspectors to complete the search for WMD's... So far NOT even one iota of WMD's was found.. and it's been close to a year already...

http://deandefense.org/archives/000633.html

Thanks.

I was there last winter.

Dean's statments were anti-Iraq invasion
and anti-unilateral-preemptive war in general.

Your revisionist history is foolish.

Link please.

I was for invading Iraq if Saddam posed a threat. What's your point?

If Saddam posed a serious threat, I would have supported an invasion of Iraq too, but he didn't.

The title is deliberately misleading. And there are no sources for the "evidence" provided.

Please review the rules for starting threads in the General Discussion forum, which are posted at the top of the GD forum listing.

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